Why is "MST3K - The Movie" so damned expensive?

[CatWoman]

It goes for $50 - 60 on Ebay!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=617&item=6407454621&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[KitchenWitch]

1. Are you sure it is the movie

and not the series?

I got the movie about a year ago and it was about 15 USD

[CatWoman]

2. look at the link

it's the movie!!

[WhollyHeretic]

3. Same here $16

The TV show collection I got cost me $55

[bunkerbuster1]

4. And as much as I love MST3k

let's face it, the movie just wasn't very good.

By all accounts, they had a horrible time making it.

[CatWoman]

6. I loved it

but it wasn't as edgy as some of their tv stuff.

Last night I watched, "I was a Teenage Werewolf".

I swear, you have to watch the same movie 20 times in order to catch all the riffs :D

[Deep13]

7. Yeah, I though it was priceless.

Doug Exeter!

I'm the wormy guy.

You're being kidnapped by the light FM.

[CatWoman]

9. ROFL!!!!

You're being kidnapped by the light FM.

[Jara sang]

21. Are you kidding?

The movie was excellent, IMHO.

[bunkerbuster1]

24. Well, to be fair, maybe I should see it again

it's been awhile. I've been known to later appreciate a couple of MST eps that didn't do much for me on the first viewing.

[Deep13]

5. It's out of print.

Sorry. I had this shitty job in 1997 and had been planning to quit for some time. I was living in Toledo while my fiancee was living in Cleveland. The day I quit I telephoned her and said "guess what!"

"You quit!"

"Yeah, but I also bought Mystery Science Theater, the Movie at Revco for $14."

[lenidog]

8. Thats right I just looked it up and it is out of print

I guess I should hold on to my VHS copy

[CatWoman]

12. I have the VHS version as well

I may transfer it to DVD, then sell the VHS.

[lenidog]

14. That is a great idea

[4_Legs_Good]

18. I believe the DVD has the unMSTied version of the film as well

which is a pretty cool special feature.

I've been hunting a copy on eBay for a while but haven't picked it up yet.

david

[Deep13]

20. Got one of each.

My wife has bought every MST product ever released, except maybe for a few paper or T-shirt items.

Also, she bought the record cover from the Undead (Digger Smolten, All My Best)

Pearl Forrester's jacket

Tom Servo head from Werewolf (Where-O-werewolf, I've looked every where-wolf!)

I big cut-out Mike Nelson from I forget which episode.

A chunk of the Deep13 set.

From the MST feature film, This Island Earth, she has:

The clipboard photo of Mike with which Clayton Forrester smacks himself in the ass.

The switch to activate the Manos manipulator arm. The button is a spray painted nickle.

Mike's jumpsuit.

The Servo underwear head.

The interrocitor manual which we suspect is from the set of the original This Island Earth production. (It's paper.)

[4_Legs_Good]

22. Wow! Awesome stuff!!!

I wish I woulda been more on board when they were auctioning everything.

Hey, there are still no copies floating around of the first 4 episodes are there? K00, K01, K02, K03?

I stopped collecting several years ago, so I'm outta the loop and am not sure if any of those lost episodes have managed to leak out of the vault yet.

david

[Book Lover]

27. I think if you poke around at

the MST3K Digital Archive project, you can be led to them...

[RandomKoolzip]

10. Hey CatWoman: You want a copy? If you send me a blank I'll dub it

for ya. :hi:

[CatWoman]

13. See my other response

I have the original on VHS.

But I want it on DVD.

:hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Ah! I see.

Yup, the minute they make a DVD burner that costs less than a used SUV, I'm sooooooo there. My MSTs are beginning to get a big haggard from overuse.

[Deep13]

25. Yeah, I've got the Sci-Fi channel episodes ...

... on home-recorded VHS. They are getting a bit degraded since the newest one is seven years old. There is an outfit somewhere that sells grey market copies, but I forgot it's name. I will ask my wife tonight. She will remember.

[CatWoman]

26. I'd like that info, too!!

:D

[RandomKoolzip]

28. PLEASE Pm me!

I'd love to set up a trade for the sci-fi episodes. I have all the comedy central eps and even some KTMA stuff...and even if you don't want those, maybe I have some rare music or something else you'd like.

I gotta go to work now, but I'd love to set up a trade for those!

[KitchenWitch]

11. WOW

the MOVIE????

Some eBay bidders are DUMB. No way would I pay over 10 buckos for a USED DVD.

[4_Legs_Good]

15. If you can get a real copy for $50 on eBay

BUY IT NOW!

Anything under $90 is almost certainly a bootleg. The movie is out of print and has been for some time. Real copies rarely go for less than $100, and if you're really shopping for a legitimate copy make 100% sure it's authentic before bidding. The seller should state explicitly that it's not a bootleg and should have impeccible feedback. A single negative feedback stating that the buyer got a bootleg should be enough to warn you away. Check the buyer's previous auctions and if s/he has sold copies of the MST3K movie before, it's almost certainly a bootleg as well.

If you just wanna watch the movie, there are lots of bootlegs out there, as well as VHS copies and laser discs.

david

[sasquatch]

16. Mmm...Cause they don't fake their orgasims?

:shrug:

[CatWoman]

23. BAD SASQUATCH!!!

BAD!! :D

[sasquatch]

29. I'M SO BAD BABY I DON'T CARE!!

:headbang:

[Merrick]

17. Netflix has a crapload of 'em

they had just about half a dozen when I first joined but they've added a bunch since. They've got like 30 now.

[sakabatou]

30. Why not rent it?

[Lannes]

31. I hate when they only print a limited number of DVDs

Im debating wheter or not to get "The Seven Percent Solution" on DVd for fifty bucks.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305078009/103-1394282-8687029?v=glance

[Cush]

32. because Mike broke the Hubble!

they have to pay NASA back somehow

[CatWoman]

33. I didn't know you had an interroceter in your room!!!

That thing??? I've been using it to make hot chocolate :D